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Vessel Depicting a Sacrificial Ceremony for a Royal Accession
Maya · 750–800, probably 753
Provenance
Ownership history
- Robert and Marianne Huber Fine Arts (Huber Primitive Art), Dixon, Ill. and New York; sold to Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, May 17–Aug. 24, 1986, cat., plate 92; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 8–Dec. 14, 1986.
- Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Art Museum, Dancing into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom, Oct. 6, 2012– Feb. 17, 2013, cat. no. 8 (ill.)
Literature
Published references
- Allen Wardwell, "Mayan Treasures at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo: The International Magazine of Arts (June 1972), 487, 488; plate xii; drawing fig. 3.
- Anne Paul. History on a Maya Vase. In Archaeology vol. 30, no. 2 (April 1976), pp. 118-126.
- Linda Schele and Mary Miller. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, 1986), plate 92, pp. 227-228, 238-239.
- Bryan Just, Dancing into Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom, exh. cat. (Princeton University Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 30-31, 200-204 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 205, cat. 162 (ill.).
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